On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 07:32 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
To be sure, this procedure could be retested on a new install, since
I can't
prove that it isn't the initramfs caused by a kernel update that makes it work
here.
It's not too hard to check:
[root@adam shapefile]# lsinitrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.31.6-145.fc12.x86_64.img | grep
nouveau
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Nov 26 09:44
lib/modules/2.6.31.6-145.fc12.x86_64/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 714040 Nov 26 09:44
lib/modules/2.6.31.6-145.fc12.x86_64/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau.ko
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Nov 26 09:44 usr/lib64/libdrm_nouveau.so.1 ->
/usr/lib64/libdrm_nouveau.so.1.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 20256 Nov 19 16:45 usr/lib64/libdrm_nouveau.so.1.0.0
init
i.e., use lsinitrd to see if your initramfs actually has a nouveau
module in it. also, boot without the rdblacklist parameter and see if
nouveau gets loaded.
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adamw